Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
...school-life. Many of us probably have some unpleasant recollections of school. Who has not? But he must have been a curious boy indeed who did not manage to have a good time at school in spite of the teacher. It is true that fellows are not thrown so much together at a day school as they all are in Cambridge; but on the other hand they generally remain more than four years at school. The associations which many of the more important schools have formed, try to keep alive the school spirit and bring the graduates together...
Nothing, perhaps, is more natural than for a student newly thrown into relations with, apparently, his superiors, to adopt their customs and their language. The transition from the refined conversation of home life or the puerilities of school life is strangely sudden; they are dropped or intensified almost immediately - and because this transition is so sudden we are led to ask seriously whether the use of Harvard slang is merely an affectation or an unconscious habit. Members of the freshman class may always be relied upon to betray their collegiate standing by an inordinate use of purely Harvard expletives. This...
...consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach is continuous with that in the mouth, running along down through the oesophagus. When the stomach is empty it is thrown into folds, which become smooth as it fills up. Alexis St. Martin, who was the means of furnishing most of our knowledge of the functions of the stomach, was under observation for thirty-two years. On stimulation of the stomach by any means the gastric fluids begin to flow...
...gymnasium at the University of Pennsylvania has been formally thrown open. The general plan of the building is similar to the one at Harvard, and the apparatus is of the latest and most approved pattern. The gymnasium is hardly large enough for the growing needs of the University, but all the appointments are perfect. December 3rd, Dr. J. Williams While lectured to the students on the uses of the several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present...